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This old fashioned spiced banana cake recipe with brown butter cream cheese frosting is my favorite snacking cake! If you like banana spice bread, you'll love this easy banana spice cake to use up your overripe bananas!
Servings: 10 slices
Calories: 440kcal
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Ingredients
- 1 cup (220 g) light brown sugar - packed
- 2 large eggs - room temperature
- 2 overripe bananas - mashed
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) pure vanilla extract
- ¼ cup (59 ml) vegetable oil
- ½ cup (118 ml) full-fat buttermilk - (regular whole milk works too)
- 1¼ cups (156 g) all-purpose flour
- 1¼ teaspoon (5 g) baking powder
- ½ teaspoon (1 g) ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp (1 g) ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon (2 g) salt
- 1 batch (5 ml) Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease an 8-inch round cake pan and line with parchment paper.
- In a stand mixer or with a handheld mixer, beat brown sugar, eggs, banana, and vanilla for one minute.1 cup light brown sugar, 2 large eggs, 2 overripe bananas, 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Mix in vegetable oil and buttermilk until well combined.¼ cup vegetable oil, ½ cup full-fat buttermilk
- In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.1¼ cups all-purpose flour, 1¼ teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg, ¼ teaspoon salt
- Gently fold flour mixture into wet ingredients until just combined.
- Pour into prepared cake pan and bake for 30-35 minutes, or until a toothpick entered into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Cool in pan for about 10 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Prepare Browned Butter Cream Cheese Frosting and spread over cooled cake.
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Notes
Brown Butter: for details and images on how to brown butter, check out my Brown Butter Appreciation Post.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 slice | Calories: 440 kcal | Carbohydrates: 65 g | Protein: 5 g | Fat: 19 g | Saturated Fat: 11 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5 g | Trans Fat: 0.4 g | Cholesterol: 86 mg | Sodium: 289 mg | Potassium: 196 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 49 g | Vitamin A: 677 IU | Vitamin C: 2 mg | Calcium: 97 mg | Iron: 1 mg
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